Antoine Le Roux de Lincy

It served, moreover, in the one or the other form for the English and other translations of the work, and down to our own times was accepted as the standard version of the Queen of Navarre's celebrated tales.

Although it was known that various contemporary MSS was preserved at the French National Library in Paris, no attempt was made to compare Gruget's faulty version with the originals until the Société des Bibliophiles Français entrusted this delicate task to M. Leroux de Lincy, whose labors led to some most valuable discoveries, enabling him to produce a really authentic version of Margaret's admired masterpiece, with the suppressed tales restored, the omitted passages reinstated, and the Queen's real language given for the first time in all its simple gracefulness.

It is from the authentic text furnished by M. Leroux de Lincy that the present translation has been made, without the slightest suppression or abridgment.

The work, moreover, contains all the more important notes to be found in the best French editions to the Heptameron, as well as numerous others from original sources, and includes a résumé of the various suggestions made by Messrs. Félix Franck, Leroux de Lincy, Paul Lacroix, and de Matignon towards the identification of the narrators of the stories and the principal actors in them with well-known personages of the time.

An essay on the Heptameron from the pen of Mr. George Saintsbury, M.A., and a life of Queen Margaret are also given, as well as the quaint prefaces of the earlier French versions.

and a complete bibliographical summary of the various editions which have issued from the press.

It served, moreover, in the one or the other form for the English and other translations of the work, and down to our own times was accepted as the standard version of the Queen of Navarre's celebrated tales.

Although it was known that various contemporary MSS was preserved at the French National Library in Paris, no attempt was made to compare Grugé's faulty version with the originals until the Société des Bibliophiles Français entrusted this delicate task to M. Leroux de Lincy, whose labors led to some most valuable discoveries, enabling him to produce a really authentic version of Margaret's admired masterpiece, with the suppressed tales restored, the omitted passages reinstated, and the Queen's real language given for the first time in all its simple gracefulness.

It is from the authentic text furnished by M. Leroux de Lincy that the present translation has been made, without the slightest suppression or abridgment.

The work, moreover, contains all the more important notes to be found in the best French editions to the Heptameron, as well as numerous others from original sources, and includes a resume of the various suggestions made by Messrs. Félix Franck, Leroux de Lincy, Paul Lacroix, and de Matignon towards the identification of the narrators of the stories and the principal actors in them with well-known personages of the time.

An essay on the Heptameron from the pen of Mr. George Saintsbury, M.A., and a life of Queen Margaret are also given, as well as the quaint prefaces of the earlier French versions, and a complete bibliographical summary of the various editions which have issued from the press.

It may be supposed that numerous illustrated versions have been published of a work so celebrated as the Heptameron, which, besides furnishing scholars with a favorite subject for research and speculation, has, owing to its perennial freshness, delighted so many generations of readers.